A Full List of Items that will be GST-free for Mennonites Over the Holidays

Earlier this week, the federal government announced a GST break for several important items over the holiday. The Unger Review has compiled a list of the essential items that Mennonites will be able to purchase for a little bit cheaper for the next several weeks.

  • Dry cottage cheese
  • Wet cottage cheese
  • Lard (for sandwiches)
  • Used ice cream pails
  • Used margarine containers
  • Masking tape (for labeling ice cream pails)
  • Paper bags
  • Peanuts (to put in paper bags)
  • Plett latches
  • Klik
  • Plume moos
  • Ambrosia salads
  • Andrew Unger books – The Best of the Bonnet and Once Removed make great GST-free Christmas gifts
  • German Bibles
  • Star anise (for soup)
  • Gesangbuchs
  • Horseshoes (for throwing not for horses)
  • Papsi
  • Ravels
  • Natural casings (for farmer sausage)
  • Danny Orlis books (for quiet time)
  • Milking buckets
  • Yerba mate
  • Yerba mate gourds
  • Yerba mate bombillas
  • Martyrs Mirror
  • Fortrel pants
  • Rubber overshoes
  • Suspenders
  • Duaks
  • Belts (for discipline not to keep pants up)
  • Eatons catalogues (for perusing the last 10 pages)
  • Bothwell cheese curds
  • Zoat
  • Plow disks (for cooking)
  • Kjnipsers
  • Nails (to replace the bent ones on your kjnipsbrat board)
  • Tubduaks
  • Goertzen family singers LPs
  • Spiral-bound family history book your uncle wrote
  • Koop enn Bua cassette tapes
  • Communion cups
  • Real Mexican vanilla
  • Socks (to be worn with sandals)
  • Mennonite Treasury of Recipes
  • Liver sausage
  • Maps of La Crete
  • Co-op memberships
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